GRAND RAPIDS - Open Systems Technologies announced it has placed number 150 on national I.T. ranking out of tens of thousands of companies nationwide by CRN, in its 2016 Solution Provider 500 rankings. This is OST’s seventh consecutive appearance on the top 500 list. The SP500 is CRN’s channel partner award list, serving as the
GRAND RAPIDS - Do you have an exciting Mobile App or Connected Tech product that you want to demonstrate to a live audience? Now is your chance. MTAM’s Mobile Monday Grand Rapids chapter is collaborating with Start Garden to provide an opportunity for Michigan companies working with mobile and wireless tech to showcase their work.
DETROIT - Able Lending, a fintech startup headquartered in Austin, has announced it has made available $5 million dollars in funding available to Michigan based startups and small businesses. The company is the lowest-cost non-bank lender to small businesses in the US, using a new collaborative loan structure. The funding will aim to help an estimated 20
DETROIT - Technology is playing a bigger role than ever in the car-buying experience, whether it’s the technology on the car making it safer or easier to drive or the technology used to determine what vehicle is best for the buyer. In today’s highly connected lifestyle, new vehicles are laden with more and more safety
LANSING - Michael Rogers, vice president communications for the Small Business Association of Michigan, interviews entrepreneur Mike Brennan, owner of MiTechnews.com Brennan is the founder of Michigan News Network, and serves as CEO, as well as Editor & Publisher of MITECHNEWS.COM. He won more than a dozen awards in his career from the Society of Professional
LANSING - For the first time in history, voters identifying as "independent" outnumber both Democrats and Republicans, and that's forcing political types to use other data to gather information on voters. Speaking at the Small Business Association of Michigan annual networking luncheon, David Wasserman, the house editor of the Cook Political Report, said the moves
DETROIT - Challenge Detroit, celebrating its fifth year, announced its 2016-2017 class of 42 Fellows, each of whom will get opportunity to live, work and play in metropolitan Detroit. Fellows will work with their new host companies four days a week. Some of those companies are Slow Roll, EcoWorks, General Motors, Marketing Associates and Rossetti.
ROYAL OAK - Robert Tessanne, Red Level Vice President of Cloud & Technology Solutions, in this segment of M2 Techcast, talks about the success of Red Level’s spring cleaning event in May. He also recapped a June webinar, Data is the New Oil. Red Level partnered with Dell to examine case studies on how business
ROYAL OAK - The Galaxy S7 Active, exclusive to AT&T, it’s an all metal smartphone (instead of plastic), that is water resistant and shatterproof up to a fall of five-feet. Also available for AT&T is the Oculus VR Glasses that works with the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, slightly larger smart phones than the
ROYAL OAK - Justine Sheu from ProUp.Com talks about how her website helps students get connected to career paths in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math who might not get the introduction otherwise. Sheu developed her program through the Detroit Public School District, where she works with high school students to match them with STEM internships,
